Essential events since 1945

Question 1

1944-1947

Answer 1

Liberal work order promotes global cooperation following WW2

Question 2

1945-1959

Answer 2

Nuremberg and Tokyo trial shape modern human rights canon

Question 3

1947

Answer 3

partition divides India and Pakistan along religious lines

Question 4

1948

Answer 4

creation of Israel divides Middle East

Question 5

1949

Answer 5

NATO offers Western Europe security amid Cold War

Question 6

1949

Answer 6

Detonation of first Soviet atomic bomb soarks nuclear arms race

Question 7

1949

Answer 7

Chinese civil war brings communists to power in Beijing

Question 8

1950-1953

Answer 8

Korean war leaves a peninsula divided

Question 9

1950s-1960s

Answer 9

US civil rights movement kicks off decades of protests and reforms

Question 10

1954

Answer 10

First sucessful organ transplant advances lifesaving medical technology

Question 11

1955-1975

Answer 11

United States and Soviet Union wage porxy war in Vietnam

Question 12

1956

Answer 12

Suez crisis becomes flashpoint in COld War

Question 13

1957

Answer 13

Ghana gains independence amid massive wave of decolonization

Question 14

1950s-1970s

Answer 14

Space race sends Cold War competition to new heights

Question 15

1962

Answer 15

Cuban missile crisis brings world to briink of nuclear war

Question 16

1976

Answer 16

six-day war redifines Middle East’s balance of power

Question 17

1968

Answer 17

Japan becomes world’s second largest economy, driving Asia’s economic miracle

Question 18

1969

Answer 18

cold war sparks brith of internet

Question 19

1972

Answer 19

Nixon’s visit to Beijing restarts US - CHina relations

Question 20

1978

Answer 20

Camp David accords provides glimmer of peace between Israel and Arab world

Question 21

19979

Answer 21

Iranian revolution leads to severed ties with UNited States

Question 22

1980s

Answer 22

as soviet union falls, liberal democracy rises

Question 23

1989

Answer 23

Tiananmen Square massacre demonstrates chinas intolerance of dissent

Question 24

1991

Answer 24

US leads international coalition to liberate Kuwait

Question 25

1992

Answer 25

masstricht treaty lays foundation for European Union

Question 26

1992-1997

Answer 26

countries promote global cooperation on climate change

Question 27

1993

Answer 27

Oslo accords offer chance for Arab-Isreali peace

Question 28

1994

Answer 28

World fails to respopnd to Rwandan genocide

Question 29

1999

Answer 29

UNited States transfers Panama Canal to Panamanian control

Question 30

1994

Answer 30

NAFTA Serves as Marquee Free Trade Agreement for Americas

Question 31

1994

Answer 31

Nelson Mandela Elected South Africa’s First Black President

Question 32

2000

Answer 32

USS cole is bombed by Al-Qaeda in Yemen

Question 33

2001

Answer 33

9/11 attacks leads United States to launch 2 wars

Question 34

2007

Answer 34

computer worm ushers in era of cyberattacks

Question 35

2010

Answer 35

Arab spring topples government, falls short of widespread reform

Question 36

2013

Answer 36

Belt and road inititive reflects China’s vision for the future

Question 37

2020

Answer 37

COVID

Question 38

1951

Answer 38

European coal and steel community offers new approach of lasting peace

Question 39

1948

Answer 39

US helps rebuild post war europe thorugh marshall plan

Question 40

1960

Answer 40

Sirimavo Bandaraike makes hostory as first woman elected head of governement

Question 41

2001

Answer 41

USS cole and 9/11

Question 42

1997

Answer 42

G7-G8 (russua invited)

Question 43

1996

Answer 43

arctic councel

Question 44

995

Answer 44

GATT becomes WTO

Question 45

1994

Answer 45

netscape web browser

Question 46

1994

Answer 46

Aparthide ended in SA

Question 47

993

Answer 47

European Union

Question 48

92-1948

Answer 48

UN peacekeeping surge

Question 49

1991

Answer 49

Iraqui invasion of Kuwait